And she has been up to...

This is what our little Goose has been up to the past month or so: (We sure do love pictures, I take pictures with the intent to post, yet I never do before I take MORE pictures for yet another post, thus all these pictures have added up to create ONE BIG POST, instead of many small ones…) Pampering! Ok, so she doesn't have a black eye...she found my make-up and I must say I'm very impressed with how well she put it all on. (the story goes: I was getting ready and she was in and out of the bathroom, as usual. I just let her do her thing and she lets me get ready pretty well. But this time she was searching for attention, so she grabbed my make-up bag and darted out the door...I followed and took it back from her, but she screamed and threw a fit, so me being the awesome parent I am, gave it back to her (taking the things I still needed) so I could finish getting ready. I watch her put the lids on and off and put things in and out of the bag. But the next thing I saw she had put foundation on her chin, blush on her cheeks and eye liner on her, yes...eyes! You can't see the blush and foundation very well in these pictures, but the eyeliner was right on target ;) Silly girl.) 18 months!! Annaka turned 18 months Feb. 21st! I think this is a very BIG DEAL- maybe it's because I'm in the primary and she gets to go to nursery ... officially! So, for her 18 month birthday I got her some water colors and we painted. She got so into it. She didnt show excitement, it was more like curious ...Very meticulousabout things. She got into it, that's for sure.

Her first strokes (of the brush) figuring it out

trying something new (fingers)

Now she got a little confused, but learned quickly...not very tasty

Gardening

I have been wanting to plant a garden in our backyard in the beautiful retaining wall Kirb built last summer, but we never filled in up with dirt. In Feb. I went with my friend to her ward's relief society activity all about how to garden in the desert and that was motivation to just GET STARTED. Kirby was kind enough to get some mulch for our yuck dirt and Annaka and I went out and planted (some flowers, lettuce, zucchini, carrort).

putting on the gloves

Decided she liked it better without them. The mulch was so soft and she loved playing in it.

Baby Sarah

These little cuties get along so well! They are pretty much a year apart and some how they mesh really well. Annaka loves to play with baby Sarah...whenever we first see her she immediately puts some sort of toy or object on Sarah. Today she tried to put one of the larger books on her, good thing I caught her, Sarah is just a little on and that book would have been just a too much for her to handle. I've had a good time babysitting her, I'm hoping it will be good prep for 2, but Im not so sure, Sarah is SO easy!

Annaka will say "hol" which means hold and we will set Sarah on her and Anna gets all giddy and you can just see how special she feels. Sarah is a good sport!

Dad Time

Like usual, Annaka LOVES her time spent with Dad. He is so sweet with her and you know he comes home from school (test the next day or not) just to spend time with her...She has him wrapped around her fingers, that's for sure!

One Result

of our little garden we planned- can you see it? (although I 'm not entirely sure it's not just a weed :S):

Valentine's gift

Grandma and Grandpa B. spoiled Annaka for Valentine's Day this year and got her her very own washing machine, with iron and ironing board. Little did they know that she loves helping mom do the laundry and some of her favorite play things are her very own clothes.

Grandma was smart and cut up some fabric squares just special for her washer. I find Anna playing at her washer AT LEAST once a day! She loves laying out all her fabric and I find it so entertaining to see what she thinks to do with them...line them all up, stack them, even iron them and put them in the baskets.

Hair Salon

My friend Melanie is a hair dresser and one day when left Annaka with her to be babysat I said, you should play hair salon with Annaka and see if you can get her to keep her "pretty" in. BECAUSE- this little Goose will take out any "pretty" I put in her hair within 2 minutes of it being in.

You can see from the photo below Melanie works miracles...serious, she has YET to take her "pretty" out since Melanie did play hair salon...I had said it in passing...NOT REALLY expecting her to, but boy am I pleased they did! She is so cute with that little curl...okay, at least she doesnt look so much like boy...look at ALL the pictures above, they were all taken before this one-which was before the hair salon with Melanie. The best I could get was parted to the side...or mullet...which would you prefer? How about neither!